- Born
- Birth nameRachael Domenica Ray
- Nicknames
- Super-Cook
- Anti-Martha
- Rach
- The Rach
- Height5′ 2½″ (1.59 m)
- Lives in the Adirondacks with her husband John M. Cusimano, mother Elsa Scuderi, a cat and two fishes. Has a younger brother named Emmanuel (Manny) and an older sister named Maria Betar. Moved to upstate New York when she was in the first grade. At one time, her family owned several restaurants, called "The Carvery", in and around Falmouth and Mashpee, Massachusetts.
After college, she worked as candy manager at "Macy's Marketplace" in New York. She was promoted to the fresh food section, then left Macy's and became a chef and buyer at a gourmet store. She moved out of New York City and, while working in a shop in Albany, she held cooking lessons in the store and caught the attention of a local television station. The station began cooking segments, which later became 30 Minute Meals (2001). She has authored several cookbooks, including "Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals" and "The Open House Cookbook". She garnered national attention from a segment on the Today (1952) show during a blizzard.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- SpouseJohn M. Cusimano(September 24, 2005 - present)
- ChildrenNo Children
- Parents
- RelativesMaria Betar(Sibling)Emmanuel "Manny"(Sibling)
- Her smile
- Husky voice
- Her catchphrase: "Shut the front door!"
- Highly fattening foods
- Her hometown is Queensbury, New York, where the pizza place she goes to has a "Rachael Ray" pizza, named in her honor.
- On the December 5, 2006 episode of her syndicated television show, Rachael Ray (2006), Rachael was presented with a certificate by Erin McKean, the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries, which declares that "EVOO" (extra-virgin olive oil) will be added to the 2007 Oxford American College Dictionary. Rachael began using this term on her shows on the Food Network - after a while 'extra-virgin olive oil' is a lot to say repeatedly.
- Has a plaque in her home that reads, "Martha Stewart doesn't live here".
- Lives in a small, rustic, lakeside cabin in the town of Lake Luzerne in the Adirondacks with her husband, John M. Cusimano, and her mother, Elsa Scuderi. Her mother was the food supervisor for several Howard Johnson's. Rachael was even a waitress at Howard Johnson's.
- She has a pit bull named Isaboo, named after her dog Boo who passed away, and goldfish named Jaws and Orca.
- I'm a lousy whistler. I can't make coffee, I can't bake and I can't whistle. There. I'm outed, on all levels.
- If you're humble and hardworking, opportunities will arise for you.
- For a lot of people, divorce is traumatic, but for us, it made for a happier family. It was miserable to watch people live together who shouldn't.
- [on cooking] You do it with your own two hands, so there's a sense of pride. You really do forget all our problems, because you're focusing on the food.
- When you really want to show some love, keep the flowers and say it with spaghetti.
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